Robert P. Jones of Public Religion Research and John C. Green of the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron have just released their 2009 Religious Activists Surveys, "the first-ever mirrored surveys of conservative and progressive activists." Key findings are below.

The International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Sociology of Religion has issued acall for papers for the World Congress of Sociology, scheduled to take place 11-17 July, 2010 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

In the Sunday Styles section of the New York Times, Allen Salkin profiles a newly prominent group of young urban women who preach a lifestyle of health, self-help, and spirituality.

Sara Corbett, in the New York Times Magazine, offers a foretaste of a recently-recovered work by Carl Jung, which will provide novel insights into the mind of one of the 20th century's most significant psychological—and religious—thinkers.

In Guernica, Jane Ratcliffe interviews Robert Thurman, a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies at Columbia University, activist, and former Tibetan Buddhist monk. They discuss the prospects of a new world order founded in nonviolence.

At The Faith Divide, Eboo Patel reflects on seeing Bruce Springsteen perform on Eid.

Reflecting on the hairstyles on display in the photographs accompanying Mary Travers's obituary, Diane Winston notes the evangelical appropriation of the goatee.

Alluding to novelist Toni Morrison's sobriquetical designation of Bill Clinton as the nation's first black president, David Paul Kuhn argues that the anti-Semitic rhetoric employed by Barack Obama's critics make him America's first Jewish president.

Guardian contributor Theo Hobson appeals for a more theatrical Protestantism.